On Thu, 28 May 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am new to Linux, and I have some problems:
>
> I have a 70Mb RAM, 2.5 Gb HD 120 Mhz Pentium. My linux is SuSE 5.1 and I
> have a 0,9 Gb Linux partition (ext2 fs) and a 60 Mb Swap Partition. My
> problem is that when I open many programs and I run out of memory my system
> did not swap it to disk.
> I have tried to change the priority of swap (in etc/fstab I think), it was
> -1. But my problem is the same: the machine hangs.
>
> I have recompiled the kernel with different options and it does no work.
> Please tell me the appropiate priority for swaping.
>
> Thank You.
> Enrique
>
Silly question..
1) is your swap partition type set to type 82 ?
2) have you formated it ie mkswap -c /dev/hda3 60000 or whatever partition/blocksize ?
3) try doing it manually ie 'swapon /dev/ha3' 'swapoff /dev/hda3'
what where the error messages ?
Span...
